Kevin Jennings, another screwy czar

Have you heard of Kevin Jennings, the Safe School Czar? Jennings is a well rounded individual according to to the government press release.

Kevin Jennings is the founder and former executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that works to make schools safe for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Prior to his tenure at GLSEN, Jennings served as History Department chair and a history teacher at Concord Academy in Massachusetts and before that as a history teacher at Moses Brown School in Rhode Island. Jennings has also authored six books including Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir which was named a 2007 Book of Honor by the American Library Association and Telling Tales Out of School which was the winner of the 1998 Lambda Literary Award. Jennings received an A.B. in history from Harvard, an M.A. from the Columbia University Teachers College and an M.B.A. from NYU's Stern School of Business.

Its funny that they didn't mention some of his other experiences.

…a person who founded and ran an organization (GLSEN)where instructors had explicitly described to middle school youngsters how to perform homosexual sexual acts?

…a teacher who had been told by a boy of 15 that he had been sexually abused by an older man, but did not tell authorities or his parents or do anything to protect the youngster from the abuser?

…a man who publicly stated that he was inspired by a man who was the number one proponent and promoter of pedophilia in the country?

…a person who wrote the forward to a book called Queering Elementary Education?

…a person who has publicly, in writing and in speeches, ridiculed and demeaned people of faith?

Maybe they can find a place for Polanski in the executive branch.

Yet another politician that needs to be culled from the herd...

I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life. We, we write in this committee and legislate with plain English and I think most of us can understand most of that. When you get into the legislative language, Senator Conrad actually read some of it, several pages of it, the other day and I don’t think anybody had a clue--including people who have served on this committee for decades--what he was talking about. So, legislative language is so arcane, so confusing, refers to other parts of the code—‘and after the first syllable insert the word X’--and it’s just, it really doesn’t make much sense.

If you can't understand it, why in in the world would you vote for it?

Big Government Health Care PSA

Another great PSA poking fun of Will Ferrell and his Hollywood homies.



This one has a tagline at the end.  It is from CatholicVoteAction.org.

Dr. Charles E. Rice to speak at IPFW

The ArchAngel Institute (an Indiana non-profit corporation and a member of the Hoosier Patriots Coalition) is excited to host Dr. Charles E. Rice at 7:00 pm on Friday, October 16, 2009, in Auer Auditorium on the campus of Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne.  Dr. Rice’s lecture is entitled “The Constitution in the Age of Obama” and will be of interest to all who are concerned about the present trajectory of the federal government.
Dr. Rice is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame law School. His areas of specialization are constitutional law and jurisprudence.  His lecture will be followed by a round table discussion by a panel of distinguished guests.  Questions will be taken from the audience.  This unique event will take place in the comfortable Auer Performance Hall of the beautiful Rinehart Music Center on the North IPFW Campus.
The doors will open for general admission seating at 6:45 pm.  A free will offering will be taken to offset costs for this event.
A VIP reception with Dr. Rice and the panel of experts will take place in the hour before the lecture.  VIP admission passes will allow access to seating at 6:15 pm.  All on the ArchAngel Institute’s mailing list will receive an invitation to the VIP reception.  To get on that mailing list send an email to archangelinstitute@gmail.org or fcm to The ArchAngel Institute, 827 Webster Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

I miss Red Skelton

Shut up and Obey! We know what's best for you.

We know what's best. First, we have Michigan.

State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids

Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.


Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.

We can't have neighbors helping each other; that's the government's job.  I knew Detroit was messed up, but I had hope for the rest of the state. I was wrong.

Second, we have New York.

School district could backpedal on policy

Seventh-grader Adam Marino is getting a firsthand lesson in civil disobedience.

The 12-year-old and his mother, Janette Kaddo Marino, are defying Saratoga Springs school policy by biking to Maple Avenue Middle School on Route 9. The Jackson Street residents pedal more than four miles together each way to the middle school on nice days despite being told not to by school officials and police.

I applaud this Mother for standing up against an out of control system and teaching her son to do the same. The country could use more of this sort of parenting.

The biking debate started last spring, when school district officials told Kaddo Marino that Adam was violating school rules by biking to class. Walking to the school also is not permitted.

Kids getting exercise and fresh air.  What is the world coming to?  Before you know it they will be eating vegetables.  We have to nip it in the bud!

Listen to overpaid celebrities

If you haven't seen the health care ad sponsored by MoveOn.org with Will Ferrell and other celebrities, don't bother. Watch this one instead. Its actually funny.



I don't know who put this together, but they did an excellent job.

Porn surfing rampant at U.S. science foundation

This is another story that for which this blog was titled. We, the American taxpayer, are paying the salaries of folks at the National Science Foundation who spend their days surfing porn sites on the web.  It's not just a few isolated incidents, but there are so many perverts there that...

they swamped the agency's inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.

This is the National Science Foundation we are talking about. Hasn't anyone there heard of blocks or filters. There cannot be any business reason to visit these sites, but according to one individual there are humanitarian reasons.

For instance, one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.


When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women. Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.


"He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that," investigators wrote in a memo.

331 DAYS!?!? At least it appears he took some vacation time. Humanitarian work can be so stressful.

If Congress and President Obama want to fix something, let them start with crap like this. If it were me and I was caught looking at porn while at work, I would be walked to the door without a word. And I should be. Zero tolerance.

Release Roman Polanski..

...into a room filled with fathers of teenage girls. And just to make it interesting, we'll give the fathers baseball bats.

I wasn't going to post on the Polanski arrest because it brings out a side of me that asks for vengeance not necessarily justice, hence the opening to this post. Vengeance arises from emotion and justice proceeds from reason. The Polanski arrest pushes those emotional buttons. That being said, the bastard needs to be brought before a court in the United States and face the charges he ran from.

The statements coming from the some of Hollywood crowd are abhorrent for example,  Whoopi Goldberg: "It wasn't rape-rape..."  From this description, IT WAS RAPE. (Caution, very graphic.)  The women of the View should be ashamed of themselves.

Father Thomas J. Reese, S.J. has an interesting Op Ed asking what would be said if it was Father Polanski the priest instead of Roman Polanski the artist.

The outcry would be universal. Victim groups would demand the award be withdrawn and that the organization apologize. Religion reporters would be on the case with the encouragement of their editors. Editorial writers and columnist would denounce the knights as another example of the insensitivity of the Catholic Church to sexual abuse.

This is just more of the double standards that we see today. When a crucifix in a jar of urine is considered art, why would we expect Hollywood to stand against a rapist. I think Father Reese sums it up best.

Entertainment is the new religion with sex, violence and money the new Trinity. The directors and stars are worshiped and quickly forgiven for any infraction...

Mock Town Hall Videos Up at YouTube

It looks as if I have not been on top of this. I found about five videos on YouTube today from the 9/1/09 Mock Town Hall. They were posted about three weeks ago. I'm not sure how I missed these, but I did. Mea Culpa.

These are not the "official" videos, but at least something has been put up.


The other four can be seen here, here, here and finally here. This last one may have been the most passionate speech of the night.

Attempted Assassination of Saudi Prince

Here is an update to Friday's post of the attempted assassination of a Saudi prince where the terrorist exploded a bomb that he had hidden up is backside.


Are we going to see cavity searches by TSA in the near future?

Police in Toronto Confiscate Guns from Citizens

Canadian citizens are facing police going door to door searching for guns that are improperly registered or stored. This project is focused on cutting down the number of weapons that could be stolen from Canadians and used in a crime.

"Legal handgun owners are not dangerous individuals," Blair told reporters at a Tuesday news conference. "But we know from experience that their firearms can become extremely dangerous when they get into the hands of criminals. And so we have undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce the availability of those handguns."

This could never happen in America, right? Right? I'm not so sure anymore. With people such as Cass Sunstein heading the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, I'm just not sure.

HT: Warner Todd Huston

Regulations costing California big time

Study: Regulation costs California economy almost $500 billion

This is interesting in conjunction with this article from the Cato Institute last month.
Federal Worker Pay Blasts Off

The new data show that the 1.8 million federal civilian workers earned an average wage of $77,143 in 2007, which is 61 percent higher than the $48,035 average in the U.S. private sector. That 61 percent pay advantage has increased from a 34 percent advantage in 2000.

Drunk and Stupid

A man who was refused a drink at a VFW in upstate New York made the mistake of burning their flag.

"I found him on Sunday and I duct taped him to the flag pole," Normile said bluntly. "He didn't deny it, said he was drunk. Let's just say he volunteered to sit out here duct taped to the pole."

Let's just say he volunteered...

The Stimulus is Working

Stimulus funds boost number of jobs; federal jobs that is.

The $787 billion economic recovery package also is stimulating growth in the federal government as agencies hire thousands of workers and spend millions of dollars to oversee and implement the package, according to government records and spokesmen.


Fourteen of the top federal agencies responsible for spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act say they've hired about 3,000 workers with stimulus money. That's helped fuel the continued growth of the federal government, which increased by more than 25,000 employees, or 1.3%, since December 2008, according to the latest quarterly report. During that time, the ranks of the nation's unemployed increased by nearly 4 million, Labor Department statistics show.

Well President Obama did promise to create or save millions of jobs. We should of known he was talking about government jobs.

USCCB's Social Justice Arm Caught Funding Pro-Abortion/Prostitution Groups: Takes "Decisive" Action in Response

Lifesitenews.com has published an article concerning action being taken by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) in response to a report by Bellarmine Veritas Ministry (BVM) demonstrating that the CCHD has been funding groups that support abortion, contraception, same-sex "marriage," and legalized prostitution.

Reacting to the BVM report, McCloud said, "I was shocked."  McCloud also told LSN that he had not seen any of the information before.  "We routinely, whenever we get complaints and issues that are with some of our groups that even remotely could be contrary to Catholic teaching, we do a serious investigation and look at them," he said.  "And that's what we're doing on these."
Asked how the groups were put on the list in the first place, McCloud explained that "[the] profile of the work that [these groups] were doing in low-income communities did not include things like voters guides.  When we had first begun a relationship with them, they weren't doing any advocacy at all, and we focus just on that particular portion of the work."
In response to the CCHD's handling of the report, Gasper stated, "My organization's pleased that they're taking some active steps, obviously." However, "we're still concerned about how these groups managed to receive funding in the first place," he said.  "We would like to see some steps taken to ensure that that doesn't happen again in the future."

Transparency is definitely needed.

From BMV's report:

Steps you can take to help this campaign

Inform Yourself:

* Take the time to read the information presented on this page carefully and critically.
* Visit the USCCB CCHD website to make sure you’ve heard all sides of this issue
* Read the documents and encyclicals concerning Church social teaching (soon to be posted in the resource section of this web-site)
* Pray for guidance from the Holy Spirit

Inform Others:

* E-mail this information to those you know
* Speak to your pastor and parish priests
* Write or meet with your Bishop (a sample letter will be uploaded in the near future)
* Place informational pamphlets in your parish or local Catholic book stores (ask for permission if necessary. A sample pamphlet will be uploaded in the near future)
* Link to this website from your blog or social networking site

Act Decisively:

* Withhold your donation to the CCHD
* Place a note in the collection basket explaining the reasons why you did not contribute to the CCHD (Sample collection note)
* Remain vigilant and continue to inform others until the demands have been met

Terror Plot Round Up

Dallas, TX

Springfield, IL

Raleigh, NC

New York, NY via Denver, CO

Even though some of these investigations have been going on for years, how long before the media credits the current administration for being tough on terror?  Or will the administration itself stand up and take credit?

Update: The New York Daily News has a good article listing the recent terrorist activity in the USA.

The administration attacks the 1st Amendment

President Obama can go on every television show known to man, including some that we don't know about, and push his health care agenda. But let an insurance company send a letter to their policy holders highlighting what they feel their customers need to know and the government goes ballistic. It seems the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) is publishing the same "misleading" information.

More info here here and here.

Our President should have been saying this...

Damn!

A SUICIDE bomber tried to kill a Saudi prince by detonating TNT hidden up his BACKSIDE.